Months After a Jet Fuel Leak, No Agency Tested Waters Downstream of Piscataway Creek. So Community Groups Are Doing It Themselves.

Five months after a jet fuel leak began at Joint Base Andrews into Piscataway Creek, no agency tested the downstream water or sediment where the creek meets the Potomac River, despite residents fishing and recreating there. Community groups have since taken responsibility for testing, with an Indigenous leader highlighting the situation as part of a pattern of neglect.